From the exhibition
Fluffy Ruffles
· 1908

This Sunday page presents a serialized narrative featuring Fluffy Ruffles, a society girl navigating urban mishaps and social obligations. The strip employs the visual language pioneered in early newspaper comics: sequential panels arranged across the page, speech balloons carrying dialogue, and recurring characters in varied settings. The composition combines portrait-style sketches with full scenes of crowds and interiors, reflecting the hybrid aesthetic between illustration and sequential narrative that defined Sunday supplement comics. The dense text passages integrated with drawings typify the period's transition from captioned single images to word-picture storytelling, establishing conventions that would shape comic strip and later comic book design.
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